Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.
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The friends that have it I do wrong When ever I remake a song Should know what issue is at stake, It is myself that I remake.William Butler Yeats
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats
Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
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At midnight on the Emperor's pavement flit Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit.
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Oh, who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old
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